Emma Quayle is a journalist at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. Joining as a cadet in 1999, she has covered sport since 2001, specialising in Australian Football League football. Quayle won AFL Media Association Awards in 2005 and 2006 for her coverage of under-18 football and the AFL draft.[1] Her first book - The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent,[2] featured the junior careers of Trent Cotchin, Ben McEvoy, Brad Ebert, Cyril Rioli and Patrick Veszpremi in the leadup to the 2007 AFL Draft, was published by Allen & Unwin in September 2008. Quayle won the Grant Hattam Award - awarded to the creator of the best piece of football journalism from the players' perspective - at the AFL Players Association MVP night in September 2009 [3] and was named the Australian Football Media Association's Outstanding Feature Writer in 2010, for stories on Fremantle coach Mark Harvey's secret brain surgery, Western Bulldog Sam Reid's diagnosis with type 1 diabetes and the birth of the Gold Coast Football Club. Her second book, Nine Lives, the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer, was published in June 2010 by Penguin.